- #1 Emily Wants to Play Too
97% matchVery Positive80% of 549 reviews2017
Dev: Shawn HitchcockPub: Hitchcock Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 50%
No one believed the pizza guy. They kept the dolls. A sandwich delivery guy is on his way to Central Evidence. He is not ready for what he finds. Emily and the dolls are back with new friends, scares and more. Use stealth and strategy to survive their unique games in this survival horror.
Why similar: Horror 54.5%, Survival Horror 21.4%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Strategy 4.4%, Simulation 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: This direct sequel expands on the original's mechanics with more complex entity behaviors and a larger, more varied environment.
- #2 Pacify
96% matchVery Positive86% of 42,392 reviews2019
Dev: Shawn HitchcockPub: Hitchcock Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
There is reportedly an evil inside that house. Something about an old funeral parlor offering a last chance to talk to their dead loved ones. Plus something about lights, laughter, a girl, missing people, etc... You know the same stuff everyone claims. Take a team, and check the place out.
Why similar: Horror 58.1%, Survival Horror 14.8%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Psychological Horror 9%, Co-op 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: Like the seed game, this title focuses on completing specific tasks while avoiding a supernatural entity that haunts the building.
- #3 Granny
96% matchVery Positive94% of 9,403 reviews2018
Dev: DVloper
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 33.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
You have to escape Granny`s house...You have five days...
Why similar: Horror 42.1%, Survival Horror 25.3%, VR 10%, Multiplayer 7.2%, First-Person 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the tense, hide-and-seek nature of being trapped in a house with a hostile entity.
- #4 Five Nights at Freddy's
95% matchVery Positive94% of 57,765 reviews2014
Dev: Scott Cawthon
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds!
Why similar: Horror 50%, Survival Horror 23.6%, Psychological Horror 8.6%, Jump Scare 8.5% ★, Difficult 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive entity-management horror game that popularized the mechanics of monitoring threats to survive the night.
- #5 Dark Deception
94% matchVery Positive89% of 23,237 reviews2018
Dev: Glowstick Entertainment
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Death awaits you in Dark Deception, a story-driven first-person horror maze game. There's nowhere to hide & nowhere to catch your breath. Run or die - it's your choice. Trapped in a realm of nightmarish mazes with a mysterious woman, your only hope of survival is to find a way to escape.
Why similar: Horror 55.8%, Survival Horror 17.7%, Psychological Horror 8.3%, Multiplayer 7.4%, First-Person 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: It features intense, maze-like survival gameplay where you must manage your movement to avoid being caught by unique, terrifying entities.
- #6 Visage
94% matchVery Positive84% of 10,620 reviews2020
Dev: SadSquare Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
Why similar: Horror 54%, Survival Horror 19.2%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Multiplayer 5.5%, First-Person 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: This psychological horror game focuses on exploring a shifting, haunted house where you are constantly vulnerable to supernatural events.
- #7 Poppy Playtime
93% matchVery Positive88% of 132,662 reviews2021
Dev: Mob Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%
You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.
Why similar: Horror 61.6%, Survival Horror 22.6%, Psychological Horror 6.6%, First-Person 3.7%, Singleplayer 1.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines puzzle-solving with the constant threat of being hunted by a recurring, toy-themed antagonist.
- #8 Tattletail
92% matchVery Positive95% of 4,910 reviews2016
Dev: Waygetter ElectronicsPub: Little Flag Software, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
It’s Christmas 1998. The world’s most annoying toy just came out, and yours won’t stay in his box. Can you stop Tattletail from getting you in trouble before the bloodthirsty Mama Tattletail hunts you down? Story-driven first person horror. New DLC Included!
Why similar: Horror 51.8%, Survival Horror 29.7%, First-Person 4.9%, Indie 2.7%, Difficult 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: It utilizes the 'creepy toy' trope to create a tense survival experience where you must keep your entities quiet to avoid detection.
- #9 The Mortuary Assistant
91% matchVery Positive92% of 8,435 reviews2022
Dev: DarkStone DigitalPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Alone with the dead... Embalm corpses, banish demons, save your soul.
Why similar: Horror 79.7%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Simulation 3.7%, First-Person 3.6%, Indie 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends task-based gameplay with the constant threat of supernatural entities, requiring careful observation to survive.
- #10 Slender: The Arrival
91% matchVery Positive88% of 9,226 reviews2013
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
Why similar: Horror 56.2%, Survival Horror 19.1%, Psychological Horror 5.6%, Multiplayer 5.2%, Jump Scare 3.2% ★
Why You'll Like It: A classic of the genre, it focuses on the dread of being stalked by an entity that you must avoid while completing objectives.
- #11 Amnesia: The Dark Descent
90% matchVery Positive95% of 35,239 reviews2010
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
Why similar: Horror 62.6%, Survival Horror 20%, Psychological Horror 8.3%, First-Person 3%, Indie 1.5%
Why You'll Like It: It pioneered the 'hiding and running' survival horror style, forcing players to manage their sanity while avoiding monsters.
- #12 Murder House
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,293 reviews2020
Dev: Puppet Combo
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A local news team breaks into an abandoned house to chase a salacious ghost story... until a MANIAC chases them! ...VHS era 80's slasher. PS1 style survival horror!
Why similar: Horror 53%, Survival Horror 32.5%, Psychological Horror 11%, Indie 1.9%, Adventure 1.6%
Why You'll Like It: This retro-styled horror game traps you in a house with a persistent killer, mirroring the claustrophobic dread of the seed game.
- #13 Outlast
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 133,959 reviews2013
Dev: Red Barrels
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
Why similar: Horror 60.8%, Survival Horror 19.6%, Psychological Horror 7.1%, Multiplayer 4%, First-Person 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the feeling of helplessness and the necessity of hiding from pursuers in a confined, terrifying environment.
- #14 Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
88% matchVery Positive90% of 12,409 reviews2016
Dev: Scott Cawthon
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 56.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Welcome to Circus Baby's Pizza World, where family fun and interactivity go beyond anything you've seen at those *other* pizza places! Now hiring: Late night technician. Must enjoy cramped spaces and be comfortable around active machinery. Not responsible for death or dismemberment.
Why similar: Horror 49.4%, Survival Horror 28.7%, Psychological Horror 5.6%, First-Person 4.2%, Strategy 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: This entry shifts the focus to task-based survival, requiring you to navigate different rooms to complete objectives while avoiding robots.
- #15 Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion: HD Renovation
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,820 reviews2017
Dev: Albino Moose Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Can you survive 1000 rooms of cute terror? Or will you break once the cuteness starts to fade off and you're running for your life from the unspeakable hideous beings that shake and writhe in bowels of this house? They wait for you, they wait and hunger for meeting you.
Why similar: Horror 48.8%, Survival Horror 13.7%, Jump Scare 9% ★, VR 6.8%, Psychological Horror 6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the same jump-scare-heavy, room-by-room progression that makes the seed game so unpredictable.
- #16 Stay Out of the House
86% matchVery Positive95% of 1,761 reviews2022
Dev: Puppet Combo
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Can you escape the home of a cannibal serial killer? It's only a matter of time until you're dinner!
Why similar: Horror 47%, Survival Horror 40.1%, Indie 4.1%, First-Person 4%, Action 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: This immersive sim horror game traps you in a house with a deranged killer, requiring stealth and resource management to escape.
- #17 Boogeyman
86% matchVery Positive80% of 664 reviews2015
Dev: Clockwork Wolf
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Live your childhood nightmare and try to survive against the Boogeyman. Equipped with only your flashlight, survive each night until the morning light.
Why similar: Horror 71.5%, Psychological Horror 12%, Strategy 5.2%, Multiplayer 4.2%, Indie 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: It directly mirrors the seed game's premise of surviving the night in a bedroom against supernatural entities using limited tools.
- #18 From The Darkness
84% matchVery Positive89% of 3,427 reviews2021
Dev: N4bA
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
From the darkness is a psychological horror game with a scary atmosphere, the game takes place in an old Soviet abandoned apartment.
Why similar: Horror 54%, Survival Horror 14.7%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Walking Simulator 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a short, atmospheric experience focused on exploring a dark, abandoned apartment filled with supernatural tension.
- #19 123 Slaughter Me Street
85% matchMixed69% of 392 reviews2015
Dev: Nate SandersPub: Impulse Game Studios, LLC.
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 97.0 hrs≥1hr: 23%
Wounded and on the run, trapped in an abandoned building, armed only with a dying flashlight. Navigate darkness, outsmart lurking horrors, and escape before they reach you. A tense, paranoia-driven survival experience where every moment counts.
Why similar: Horror 86.6%, Action 6.1%, Indie 6%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game features entity-management mechanics where you must react quickly to the movements of creepy, puppet-like monsters.
- #20 Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
84% matchVery Positive89% of 8,096 reviews2014
Dev: Krillbite Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
Why similar: Horror 71.7%, Survival Horror 10.2%, Psychological Horror 3.8%, First-Person 3.3%, Indie 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the vulnerability of being a child in a house filled with terrifying, distorted entities.
- #21 Hello Neighbor
83% matchVery Positive85% of 27,665 reviews2017
Dev: Dynamic PixelsPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Hello Neighbor is a Stealth Horror Game about sneaking into your neighbor's house and figuring out what he's hiding in the basement. Play against an advanced AI that learns from your actions.
Why similar: Horror 48.7%, Survival Horror 24.1%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Strategy 4.4%, Difficult 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: It features a house-based stealth mechanic where you must outsmart an AI that learns from your movements.
- #22 [Chilla's Art] The Closing Shift | 閉店事件
82% matchVery Positive88% of 3,053 reviews2022
Dev: Chilla's Art
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The Closing Shift | 閉店事件 is a Japanese horror game about a girl on a closing shift.
Why similar: Survival Horror 59%, Walking Simulator 10.2%, Simulation 9.4%, First-Person 8.7%, Action 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It excels at building a slow-burn, stalker-based atmosphere within a single, mundane location that becomes increasingly dangerous.
- #23 The Cabin Factory
80% matchVery Positive91% of 3,493 reviews2024
Dev: International Cat StudiosPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Your job at the Cabin Factory is simple: inspect the cabins and decide on whether they’re haunted or not. If you do find any anomalies, get out…immediately.
Why similar: Horror 50.4%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Survival Horror 12.8%, Walking Simulator 6%, First-Person 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a psychological, house-based horror experience that relies on atmosphere and environmental storytelling.
- #24 Home Sweet Home
82% matchVery Positive87% of 3,748 reviews2017
Dev: YGGDRAZIL GROUP CO.,LTD
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Home Sweet Home is a first-person horror adventure game based on Thai myths and beliefs. The core gameplay focuses on storytelling and stealth to avoid perilous spirits hunting you. Moreover, few puzzles are added into the game, making gameplay more various.
Why similar: Horror 52.6%, Survival Horror 17.8%, VR 8%, Psychological Horror 6.5%, Multiplayer 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes stealth and puzzle-solving while being pursued by a relentless spirit in a dark, confined setting.
- #25 Five Nights at Freddy's 4
81% matchVery Positive93% of 16,450 reviews2015
Dev: Scott Cawthon
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 44%
In this last chapter of the Five Nights at Freddy's original story, you must once again defend yourself against Freddy Fazbear, Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, and even worse things that lurk in the shadows.
Why similar: Horror 46.2%, Survival Horror 27.3%, Psychological Horror 7.2%, Jump Scare 4.2% ★, Difficult 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game brings the survival horror directly into a bedroom, mirroring the 'trapped in a room' feeling of the seed game.
- #26 Five Nights at Freddy's 3
81% matchVery Positive90% of 11,040 reviews2015
Dev: Scott Cawthon
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Thirty years after Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed it's doors, the events that took place there have become nothing more than a rumor and a childhood memory, but the owners of "Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction" are determined to revive the legend and make the experience as authentic as possible for patrons, going to great l
Why similar: Horror 47.5%, Survival Horror 24.4%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, Jump Scare 3.9% ★, First-Person 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on managing a single, persistent threat while maintaining the facility's systems.
- #27 Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
79% matchVery Positive94% of 32,569 reviews2017
Dev: Scott Cawthon
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Start your own Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria with Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria Simulator!
Why similar: Horror 49.7%, Survival Horror 26.7%, Psychological Horror 5.9%, Simulation 3.9%, Difficult 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: It combines business management with intense, late-night survival segments that require careful attention to audio and visual cues.
- #28 Boogeyman 2
79% matchVery Positive82% of 392 reviews2017
Dev: Clockwork WolfPub: ClockWorkWolf
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Awoken in the night by your doll. Speaking as if it possesses a mind of its own. The doll warns you of a monster that has come to take you away.
Why similar: Horror 48.9%, Survival Horror 25.4%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Strategy 7.3%, Indie 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: It continues the strategy-based survival gameplay of the first, focusing on defending your position against supernatural threats.
- #29 Crawlspace 2
77% matchVery Positive95% of 79 reviews2023
Dev: Kiririn
Windows
You saw an ad about someone needing help fixing their ventilation system. it sounded easy, but this job was much different then then usual work that you were used to.
Why similar: Horror 34.4%, Survival Horror 22%, Jump Scare 16.8% ★, VR 13%, Strategy 4.8%
- #30 FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 12,944 reviews2019
Dev: Steel Wool StudiosPub: ScottGames
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted is a collection of classic and original mini-games set in the Five Nights universe. Experience the horror in flat (non-VR) mode or VR. Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are supported. A VR Headset is NOT required to play.
Why similar: Horror 45.5%, Survival Horror 20.9%, VR 17.3%, Psychological Horror 6.4%, First-Person 3.1%
- #31 123 Slaughter Me Street 2
78% matchVery Positive83% of 216 reviews2016
Dev: Nate SandersPub: Impulse Game Studios, LLC.
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 31%
In this exciting prequel to the hit game "123 Slaughter Me Street", we find out the deep dark secrets that lead up to the madness of this series. You find yourself confused with blood on your hands in a dark house with only a flashlight to guide you.
Why similar: Horror 53.4%, Survival Horror 30.7%, Strategy 7%, Action 5.1%, Adventure 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: The sequel refines the entity-avoidance mechanics, providing a similar level of jump-scare intensity.
- #32 Five Nights In Saransk
75% matchMixed69% of 87 reviews2025
Dev: Pine Games
Windows
You wake up in the middle of the night in your cozy one-room apartment and notice something wandering around your five-story panel building. Your only task is to prevent these strange creatures from getting inside.
Why similar: Horror 34.2%, Survival Horror 23.9%, Jump Scare 21% ★, Psychological Horror 9.2%, Indie 2.9%
- #33 Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion
76% matchVery Positive93% of 15,344 reviews2015
Dev: Lag Studios
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Can you survive 1000 rooms of cute terror? Or will you break once the cuteness starts to fade off and you're running for your life from the unspeakable hideous beings that shake and writhe in bowels of this house? They wait for you, they wait and hunger for meeting you.
Why similar: Horror 65%, Survival Horror 11.6%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, First-Person 3.9%, Indie 2.6%
- #34 Passing Pineview Forest
78% matchMixed65% of 1,695 reviews2014
Dev: VIS-GamesPub: United Independent Entertainment
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 18%
Passing Pineview Forest is a free mini-prequel set in the universe of Pineview Drive. Behind the abandoned house on Pineview Drive lies ominous Pineview Forest...
Why similar: Horror 65.6%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Multiplayer 6.3%, Psychological Horror 3.4%, First-Person 2.4%
- #35 Minds Eyes
77% matchMixed70% of 1,826 reviews2016
Dev: Stanislaw TruchowskiPub: TurnVex
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 22%
You venture through your mind, trying desperately to wake up from your nightmares. Will you make it out?
Why similar: Horror 64.4%, Survival Horror 18.2%, Multiplayer 6.6%, Psychological Horror 3.6%, Action 1.8%
- #36 CASE: Animatronics
74% matchVery Positive83% of 4,174 reviews2016
Dev: Walnut LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
CASE: Animatronics is a truly scary and challenging first-person stealth horror on PC. Control of the police department is in the hands of anonymous hacker. All exits are locked. Electricity is off. Metallic thumps are getting closer. Will you survive, Detective Bishop?
Why similar: Horror 47.6%, Survival Horror 24.1%, Psychological Horror 8.6%, Multiplayer 5.1%, First-Person 3.5%
- #37 Five Nights at Freddy's 2
73% matchVery Positive94% of 25,453 reviews2014
Dev: Scott Cawthon
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Welcome back to the new and improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza! As always, Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for death or dismemberment.
Why similar: Horror 46.6%, Survival Horror 25%, Psychological Horror 9.4%, Jump Scare 6% ★, Difficult 3.8%
- #38 Infliction
73% matchVery Positive81% of 936 reviews2018
Dev: Caustic Reality
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Wander through an interactive nightmare set within the confines of a once-happy household. Piece together the mystery behind a harrowing series of events while struggling to survive encounters with an entity that relentlessly stands in the way of finding absolution.
Why similar: Horror 62.1%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Walking Simulator 5.4%, First-Person 4.6%, Indie 3.9%
- #39 Outlast 2
72% matchVery Positive91% of 62,280 reviews2017
Dev: Red Barrels
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.
Why similar: Horror 50.8%, Survival Horror 24.3%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Multiplayer 4.6%, First-Person 3.6%
- #40 DEVOUR
70% matchVery Positive91% of 86,959 reviews2021
Dev: Straight Back Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
DEVOUR is a co-op horror survival game for 1-4 players. Stop possessed cultists before they drag you to hell. Run. Scream. Hide. Just don't get caught.
Why similar: Horror 57%, Survival Horror 18.9%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Psychological Horror 4.2%, VR 4%
- #41 Zardy's Maze
71% matchVery Positive91% of 1,570 reviews2021
Dev: Full Trek Media
Windows · Mac
Zardy's Maze is an extremely challenging horror game where you must enter a corn maze in the dead of night. Your goal? Cut down the giant plants that have started to grow there. Equipped with a flashlight and an axe, you must brave the unknown... And avoid what lurks in the darkness.
Why similar: Horror 52.8%, Survival Horror 17.8%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Strategy 4.9%, Psychological Horror 4.5%
- #42 Granny: Escape Together
70% matchVery Positive81% of 1,482 reviews2024
Dev: CreepyToad
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
This is a creepy co-op horror game. In which you find yourself locked in a crazy Granny's house. But Granny is not the only danger that awaits you in the house, someone else creepy lives in the basement. You have five days to get out of the house!
Why similar: Horror 42.8%, Survival Horror 31.1%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, Multiplayer 9.1%, First-Person 3.7%
- #43 Dollmare
69% matchVery Positive94% of 2,009 reviews2024
Dev: Alex GradePub: Almost Done Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
You've accepted a shady job offer at a doll factory. Inspect dolls for defects and anomalies. Follow strange protocols. Don't get fired and stay alive.
Why similar: Horror 58.7%, Psychological Horror 18%, Simulation 7.7%, First-Person 6.7%, Walking Simulator 5.9%
- #44 The Hat Man: Shadow Ward
73% matchMixed65% of 3,324 reviews2016
Dev: Game Mechanics LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Based on a true story, discover the horror of the Canton insane asylum as you attempt to rescue your daughter. Experience the scariest game of 2014.
Why similar: Horror 80.2%, Survival Horror 5.6%, First-Person 3.7%, Indie 3.1%, Action 2.1%
- #45 Lights Off!
70% matchVery Positive85% of 1,843 reviews2022
Dev: TheDollarGameStore
Windows
Play through a common childhood fear about turning the lights off and going to bed.
Why similar: Horror 69.4%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Walking Simulator 3.7%, Adventure 3.6%
- #46 [Chilla's Art] Stigmatized Property | 事故物件
71% matchVery Positive80% of 1,343 reviews2019
Dev: Chilla's Art
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Stigmatized Property, 事故物件 (Jiko bukken) is a horror game inspired by haunted apartment rooms in Japan. These properties are known to have cheap rents and you play to find out the exact reason why.
Why similar: Horror 57.7%, Psychological Horror 9.1%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 6.8%, Indie 5.2%
- #47 The House
74% matchMostly Negative36% of 91 reviews2014
Dev: Konsordo
Windows
Plunge into the atmosphere of fear and horror,investigate the dark house full of mysteries and danger!
Why similar: Horror 84.7%, Indie 4.6%, Action 4.4%, Adventure 3.7%, Walking Simulator 2.6%
- #48 Creepy Shift: House For Sale
67% matchVery Positive94% of 313 reviews2025
Dev: Night Shift TeamPub: Red Limb Studio
Windows
Handyman needed—ASAP! The investor’s coming in the morning, and the house still isn’t ready! Take on an extra shift where horror meets simulation. Tackle the chaos, uncover dark secrets, and finish everything before dawn.
Why similar: Horror 49.3%, Survival Horror 30.1%, Simulation 6.8%, First-Person 5.7%, Action 3.8%
- #49 Fear Therapy
69% matchMixed67% of 4,728 reviews2021
Dev: Black Flag Studios
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Fear Therapy, is a multiplayer(1-4) and single player psychological horror game.Try to complete the quests and leave the horror house before it is too late! Satan getting angrier every second and nothing holding it back.
Why similar: Horror 62.7%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Psychological Horror 9%, Survival Horror 6.4%, Co-op 4.4%
- #50 Fear of Clowns
71% matchMixed64% of 198 reviews2017
Dev: Mikhail Nevsky
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 44%
You woke up in the middle of the night from the doorbell's sound. Someone wants to play with you...
Why similar: Horror 73.6%, Action 9.7%, Indie 8.9%, Adventure 7.7%
- #51 White Noise 2
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,868 reviews2017
Dev: Milkstone Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Enjoy a 4vs1 asymmetric horror experience like no other. Be a part of the investigator team, or take control of the creature and devour them!
Why similar: Horror 44.6%, Survival Horror 24.4%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Psychological Horror 5.7%, Co-op 3.8%
- #52 DON'T SCREAM TOGETHER
67% matchMixed53% of 2,124 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Cybercherries
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A very simple co-op jumpscare horror experience where you and friends walk through a pitch black forest and try to stay quiet. Reach 8:00 AM without screaming or making a loud noise, or everyone dies. You will scream, shout, and probably laugh.
Why similar: Horror 45.4%, Survival Horror 20%, Jump Scare 15.9% ★, Multiplayer 9%, Co-op 3.5%
- #53 Mr. Hopp's Playhouse
67% matchVery Positive93% of 1,810 reviews2019
Dev: Moonbit
Windows
Every kid has that one toy that scares them, imagine if it came to life. You play as Ruby, a young girl who has a fear of her handmade toy called Mr. Hopp. Things take a dark turn when Ruby sees that Mr. Hopp, who usually sits motionless in the corner of her room, is gone.
Why similar: Horror 60.6%, Survival Horror 25.2%, Psychological Horror 4%, Indie 3.1%, Strategy 3.1%
- #54 Ghost Watchers
64% matchVery Positive86% of 16,100 reviews2025
Dev: Renderise
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ghost Watchers is a co-op online horror game. You will explore and hunt ghosts in abandoned houses
Why similar: Horror 53.2%, Survival Horror 23.7%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Co-op 7.2%, VR 3.2%
- #55 Welcome Home
66% matchVery Positive86% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Stalker StudiosPub: ITU Games
Windows
Where home feels wrong, and you're anything but welcome
Why similar: Horror 51.9%, Survival Horror 18.9%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, First-Person 4.7%, Action 3.6%
- #56 Escape the Backrooms
62% matchVery Positive91% of 134,540 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy GamesPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.
Why similar: Horror 51%, Survival Horror 18.2%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Psychological Horror 8.6%, Co-op 3.9%
- #57 Dodgy Deliveries
65% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,299 reviews2025
Dev: Tomas GonzalezPub: Deliver Games
Windows
Co-op "Horror" game about running a delivery service with your friends! B̵̨̦͓͖̹̪̥̮͛̀̏̈́̐̔̉Ę̴̤̦̤͓̰̤́͗̚ ̵̨̺͓̱̞͔͉͙̀̂͂͋͠͠Ç̸̫͈̋͋͆̋̾̑̕͜Ä̴̛̟͑͛͋͂̌̕͜͝R̵̛͎̮̜̒̽̈́͂̓̒͘Ę̸͉̙̎̀͐͆Ḟ̶̼͖̭͇̗U̸̡̫͇̤̭̪̦̣̔Ḷ̶̛͖̙͗̋̈̇̕ ̷̡̢͕̦̜͚̌̎̃̔Ā̷̧͇͎̳͔̩̜̤̗͊̋Ţ̸̭̩͚̮͖͇̹̬̾ ̷͍̞̰͈̻̣͚̂̾ͅN̵̛̤͒̏̒͝Ḯ̵̡̘͇̖̏͘Ģ̸̛͙̥̞̽̀͒͜H̶̲̜̺̐̄͋͊̍̈́͘͜T̴̯̲̳̪͚̜̼̈͠
Why similar: Horror 38.3%, Survival Horror 25.2%, Psychological Horror 9%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Co-op 6%
